Race for Timbuktu In Search of Africa's City of Gold

Name: Race for Timbuktu In Search of Africa's City of Gold
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ISBN: 9780060560645

ISBN-10: 0060560649

ISBN-13: 9780060560645

Edition: 2006

Authors: Frank T. Kryza

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The incredible true story of Alexander Gordon Laing and the race to discover Timbuktu during the early part of the 19th century--a time when the African continent was still largely uncharted. In the first decades of 19th century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers--and fortune hunters--than the lost city of Timbuktu. Like the mythical city of El Dorado, the very real Timbuktu held the promise of wealth and fame. Whoever got there first was guaranteed worldwide renown. Yet, though many had tried, no European explorer had been there and returned since the Middle Ages. In fact, Europeans knew more about the geography of the moon than they did of North and…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/24/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.13" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Frank T. Kryza has spent eleven years in Africa and himself traveled much of the territory described in The Race for Timbuktu . Author of The Power of Light , he is a twenty-year veteran of the energy industry and a former Connecticut newspaper reporter and editor. He lives in Dallas, Texas.



Author's Note


Introduction: Africa's Golden City


Prologue



A Scotsman at Tripoli



The African Association



A Wedding in the English Garden



White Man's Grave



The "African Traveler"



The Tripoli Route



Hugh Clapperton



The Journey to Bornu



Undiscovered Empires



The Race Begins



Over the Rim of the World



Clapperton Catches up



The Ivory Miniature



The Widow Zuma



Treachery in the Tanezrouft



Troubles for Captain Clapperton



The City of Legend



The Long Silence



The Lost Papers



The Mystery Solved


Afterword and Acknowledgments


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Illustration Credits


Index